Dispatches from the 10th Crusade

Entries from What's Wrong with the World tagged with 'Good Friday'

These, then, are the truths at the heart of atonement. First, that something has gone terribly wrong. We find ourselves in a distant country far from home. Second, whatever the measure of our guilt, we are responsible. Then third,...

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Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended, that man to judge thee hath in hate pretended? By foes derided, by thine own rejected, O most afflicted! Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee? Alas, my treason, Jesus,...

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The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart. Our only health is the disease If we...

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For good Friday, a little Handel. Scripture from Psalm 22, of course, which we read last night at the stripping of the altar: Related note: I have been told recently of a well-known New Testament scholar who attempts in a...